Rich: obviously you are correct. I was simply noting the exact technical nature of the issue so the developers will have a good understanding of how to fix this.
One more piece of technical information though: When using GNOME shell instead of metacity, the panel apparently uses the gnome-settings applet so under that the keyboard layout indicator always does not indicate layout, and there is no work around for that as the Ubuntu application indicator does not work under GNOME shell. -- New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs